Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004) was one of Britain's foremost abstract artists and her work contributed greatly to the development of Modernist painting in the mid to late twentieth century. As one of the new wave of 'moderns' working in St Ives in the 1940s, her work explored the possibilities of painting beyond representation and derived imagery from her subjective experience of the landscape and observations of natural forms. In later life her work became highly colourful and painterly, a style particularly evident in the magnificent prints she made in her final years.